The IART is a renowned research centre for resource technologies, focussed on crushing, grinding, screening, air classification, pelletizing and briquetting machines and circuits. A large number of machines and test rigs in scale up to pilot size allows large scale experimental investigations for research, machine design and circuit layout. A dedicated mineralogical lab allows quantification of raw material microstructure with focus on best comminution technology, specific energy consumption and wear, liberation efficiency and product particle shape.
As part of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, the oldest mining school worldwide, placed in an historic mining district with interesting new resource prospects, the institute is dedicated to sustainable exploitation of valuable resources by using innovative technologies such as selective comminution, high voltage electric impulse comminution, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
